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Show I NEW THEORIES I TO BE TESTED J In the early seventies, American HJ Fork Canyon produced millions in If fortunes from grass root propositions, Hi such ns the Old Miller, the Wild Hi Dutchman and the Live Yankee. This Hjwas nil carbonnto ore and was taken HJfrom bedded plnncs in to llmo that Hi lay on top of the quartzltcr Since the Hlcarly days, sovcral fortunes have been Hltakcn from tho grass roots and only Hi lust year Bcvcral carloads of big lend HkiouHlcrs were actually picked up out Hof tho wash on tho side of tho Mary HBlCUcn Culch. Hb The idea had gone forth that Atucri- HBnii Fork Canyon was n grass root HRiroposltlon, that tho oro was confined Ho a few pockets in tho soluablo lime. HBrom n fow feet to a few hundcrd feet Hwilck on the qunrtzltc. Peter Miller Hwns tho man first to prove tho falacy jBf the above idea. After looking over "HRio Pacific, his wido mining expert HHncc soon told him that thcro was a HBilno where tho sulphldo oro made ccp in tho qunrtslto. When ho open- rHHd 12-fcet fissure going down strong HHrveral hundred feet below, the llmo Hvcr thrust, It put n new phnso on HRlnlng in American Fork Canyon, and ZHads to tho prediction that this dls- Hklct will bo ono of tho mobt cxten- Hwc and longest lived camps fii the Hlatc. John Clcghorn in tho Bclorp- JHHian is proving tho correctness of Hktcr Miller's judgement. Charles Hwng in tho Texan is now In tho hill Hft) feet following tho same theory, H9d Charley Karl now has tho Earl- JBglo tunnel well started to Its 1,000 THBt objective point where recent hls- InHBy pays that ho will open up a deep 9tHHl0. HaHH. new theory that has recently do mfHHopcd Is that tho immonso bodies iwlHBron float found In tho canyon were caHHdo in tho lime and are but a part of iHfturlng that la so provalcnt In tho -HBtrlct. It Is contcndcdthat in Uio 1 HBs pnst tho eroding of. the hills-has 'H5-fiirS'!$foTe- tlicy"iow no. If this " 'H true, then It Is contended that by PHBtowlng up tho float on tho side of HB hill to whoro it last appears in HB debris mid ,thon drifting on bed CHBk, the hou rco of tho' oro shoujd be diciSJud, iostB:ho Trlnnnmnn propeity below the ptfHBl-Kaglo has rich float scattered pcc!HBr fifty acres or ground and will be Tt"t of the first to test out this thoory., KHBlr last work rovcnlcd ubouldcr of ' Htl oio weighing oyer one ton, and DC B11 ""' fact that its cornoro arc. yet 'e-wHlgh It Is evident tluit (ho vein where Hkocs down is not far distant. The errt'HBmanian's nro getting outsldo capl-nd capl-nd H Interested in their property and i Mo'-Hl intending to tako up the work1 of -rtBtlng the vein Just as soon as the "., MV bares tho ground. iJHm10 fl'nJor Evans Is another prop-I4HH' prop-I4HH' many ncrcs ot "7nIc'1 ,B Covered C nB nout' Tlic col"l,nnr ,ma PlartcC s' DHBnncl, now In 400 feet, to prospect Hvum "'" wan tho somco pi Uil, HHlloat, but tho npex of which i' B1" deep with suifacn waiih. |